La Fontaine en estampes, ou nouvelle édition des fables, plus complète que les précédentes, ornée de cent dix gravures en taille-douce, imprimées sur le texte ; précédée de la vie de l'auteur, extraite du nouvel ouvrage de M. Walckenaer, membre de l'Institut

New edition of the Fables, more complete than previous ones, illustrated with a hand-coloured vignette on the title page and 110 hand-coloured half-page illustrations in the text, for a total of 111 engraved and coloured plates (cf. Rochambeau 305. Després, p. 142, no. 63).

Full olive calf binding, spine with gilt fillets, numerously tooled in gilt, gilt tooling to spine-ends, boards framed in gilt, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, inner gilt dentelle on pastedowns, all edges gilt, 20th-century binding.

Spine and covers faded, some foxing, a snag at head of rear cover. Lower right corners of pp. ix-xi restored.

An exceptional and finely watercoloured copy of this abundantly illustrated edition of the "Fables." The famous illustrations by Jean-Baptiste Oudry were recut and modified for this publication and are accompanied by explanatory notes intended for young readers.

The title vignette was also created from a fragment of the frontispiece of the first edition illustrated by Oudry.